Rajesh Mehta’s Growing Retail Business
Rajesh Mehta, owner of Mehta Gifts & Stationery, started with a small local shop. Initially, all customer details, sales, and feedback were recorded manually in notebooks.
As his business grew from 20 to 500 customers and 50 to 200 products, managing sales, loyalty data, and feedback became overwhelming.
“I couldn’t keep track of everything with just paper,” Rajesh admitted.
That’s when he partnered with Rohan, a Business Central AL developer, to implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central — a digital system to simplify data management.
Rohan’s Challenge: Coding Smarter, Not Harder
Once the Business Central implementation started, Rohan faced a new challenge: repetitive development tasks like creating tables, pages, reports, and event subscribers in AL language.
“Hours of typing boilerplate code was draining,” Rohan recalled.
That’s when he discovered GitHub Copilot — an AI-powered coding assistant integrated into Visual Studio Code.
GitHub Copilot: The AI Developer Teammate
GitHub Copilot helps developers:
- Auto-complete code and reduce manual typing
- Generate pages, tables, and reports instantly
- Debug and refactor with AI suggestions
- Understand and explain code in context
For Rohan, this meant less time on boilerplate AL code and more focus on business logic that truly mattered for Rajesh’s growing store.
A Day with Copilot
Morning: Rohan creates a Customer Feedback table in minutes instead of half an hour.
Afternoon: He generates a Card page automatically.
Evening: Copilot helps write an Event Subscriber for Sales-Post events.
Night: A Customer Feedback report is ready in no time.
“Copilot didn’t just save me time; it made coding fun again,” said Rohan.
Rajesh & Rohan: Smarter Business, Smarter Code
Thanks to this combination:
- Rajesh now tracks customers, sales, and feedback digitally with Dynamics 365 Business Central.
- Rohan develops AL solutions faster, ensuring the system evolves with Rajesh’s business growth.
- Both spend less time on manual tasks and more time on innovation and strategy.
Key Takeaways
- Digitization is essential for growing businesses.
- AI-assisted coding saves time and reduces errors in development.
- Collaboration between business owners and developers ensures solutions meet real-world needs.
“With Business Central and Copilot, our small shop runs like a big business — efficiently and intelligently,” said Rajesh.